Cotoneaster horizontalis

Wall or herringbone cotoneaster

Family: Rosaceae · Type: shrub · Not Native

Wall cotoneaster is a naturalized shrub found in northern California coastal regions in thickets, brushy slopes, and pasture edges at elevations below 100 meters. Flowering from April to May, this plant produces pink to nearly red flowers 5 to 7 millimeters long with white anthers and dark red filaments. Growing as a deciduous shrub 0.5 to 1 meter tall, it forms a distinctive horizontally spreading habit. Its leaves are widely elliptic, 4 to 14 millimeters long, with a glossy surface and an acute tip, appearing slightly hairy on the underside. In autumn and winter, the shrub bears small red fruits 4 to 7 millimeters wide, which are widely ovate to nearly spherical.

Habitat: Thickets, brushy slopes, pasture edges

Bloom period: Apr-May, fruiting Sep--Mar

Elevation: < 100 m

Bioregions: NCo

California counties: Del Norte, Butte, Yolo, Santa Clara

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.